Day in Pictures, Oct. 24, 2013

October 24, 2013 |By Mike Moffitt

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Soon his kind will be gone: A Sumatran tiger wades in his pool at Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta. In its new "Licence to
Kill" report, Greenpeace says that Singapore-based Wilmar, the world's biggest palm oil processor, was sourcing
its oil from illegally cleared land and destroying the habitat of critically endangered Sumatran tigers. The
palm oil sector is the largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia, home to around 10 percent of the world's
tropical forest. According to conservationists, only about 400 Sumatran tigers remain in the wild.

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Soon his kind will be gone: A Sumatran tiger wades in his pool at Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta. In its new "Licence to
Kill" report, Greenpeace says that Singapore-based Wilmar, the world's biggest palm oil processor, was sourcing
its oil from illegally cleared land and destroying the habitat of critically endangered Sumatran tigers. The
palm oil sector is the largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia, home to around 10 percent of the world's
tropical forest. According to conservationists, only about 400 Sumatran tigers remain in the wild.